How To Photograph Creative Nudes (DVD)

Price: $89.00

You can learn how to capture your own creative and contemporary nude photographs.

Over 9 shoots you will learn:

how to light

how to create simple sets

how to pose models

how to direct models

shoot with water

There is also an accompanying ebook available and an accompanying DVD series for a more in-depth look at the photographic process this is a perfect, inspirational guide.

Presented by by Simon Q. Walden, an internationally published, award-winning professional photographer and trainer.

Running time: 130 minutes

Format: PAL Multi-Region

Learn how to create artistic images with a modern twist. See how to create modern looking and provocative art nude images.

Learn how to develop your own "creative muscle" and structure your own compelling images.

Each shoot is fully described for the intent, the background thinking, useful hot-tips and importantly the simple lighting recipe you can use as a basis for creating your own images.

This program includes the following shoots:

Chocolate

Reflecting Pool

Light and Smoke

Montage

Using Ropes

Using Drapes

Using Mud

Capturing Motion

New Old Masters

Bonus Features:

Quick guide to lighting

The models view

Nine different shoots to inspire you to create images with a difference, aimed at the art side of glamour photography you'll learn how to use simple setups and a little clever thinking to make outstanding and unique glamour images.

Three gorgeous professional models, nine different shoots, a full guide to studio lighting equipment and more ideas than you can shake a stick at.

You will understand how the photographer has worked with lighting and how you can adapt that lighting to your own setup, including simple camera flash units.

You will see how the photographer gets the best from the models through interaction and guidance, watching the photography pose the model for perfect images.

Now “Creative Nude Photography” - there's something that needs a definition. I want to explore the naked form, revel in its beauty, shape and textures. But I don't want to reveal the nude as sexual.

I want to create artistic, almost graphical and designed images, but which have a modern sensibility about them.

I don't want to fall into a trap of nudity for its own sake, but instead try and reveal new ways of understanding the naked figure.

Part of the approach is to move beyond the old-fashioned and somewhat static view of the fine art nude photographer. Creative images should have a life, a vivacity, a joie de vivre about them.

I'm not afraid for creative nudes to be smiling, joyous images. But of course they may also be serious, mysterious, evocative. They can be provocative, although hopefully not in a “come hither” kind of way.

Creative Nude Photography is also about a state of mind. It's about develop your creative muscle - I don't have any truck with the idea that you have to wait for the muse to strike. I think you can practice and build on ways of being creative - not just in your photography but in your everyday life as well.

While a fine art photograph tends to be more simplistic in its settings and composition, creative photographs can be anything and everything.

Finally, it should be about breaking rules, while rule of thirds, compositional shapes etc., all have their place in any image, being creative also means we should be breaking the rules or throwing them away entirely.